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Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; the transition; the 1964 campaign; Walter Jenkins and the effect of his leaving the staff; LBJ’s staff and JFK’s staff relations; Bill Moyers; staff loyalty to LBJ and how it affected Sinclair’s family life; Lloyd Hand; relationship between airlines and politics
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the others existed? P: Well, I don't recall any friction that ever arose between us. Everybody knew that he or she was there to do a job and it was all for the aid and the help of the Senator. He kept in close touch with all of us, and had a remarkable
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Senator Sheppard; Tom Connally; Depression years; Huey Long; Little Congress; LBJ as NYA Director in Texas; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; JFK assassination; reaction in Italy; LBJ's relationship with his staff; reaction of the staff after heart
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . At that time, as I recall, a man named Clifford Carter was active on his staff and I believe that Mr. Walter Jenkins had more or less assigned this area to Cliff Carter because I remember whenever we were filling a vacancy on the advisory committee why I
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • mainly by White House staff people. P: Yes, sir. H: I suppose people like Larry O'Brien, Barefoot Sanders, and others. P: Of course by Larry O'Brien early. Oh, everyone, Walter Jenkins, Cliff Carter, Barefoot Sanders a great deal because I've
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a Roman Catholic, bringing it to your attention!" B: Do you recall who that was? H: Yes, that was Walter Jenkins, which I will later develop. senator read the letter and told Mr. Jenkins that, '~aybe So the you'd better check the writer
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not actually meet him, as I recall, until the latter part of 1952. In 1951 his Administrative Assistant, Walter Jenkins, left the Senator and came down to run for Congress in a special election. Through a mutual friend in Dallas, Mr. Jenkins was put
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Woodward, I guess was in the crowd then, and Walter Jenkins. I remember over
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • never heard about it until after the convention was over. F: It's a good thing you didn't hear the introduction. D: r would have collapsed. Absolutely! I took the LBJ statement that came from one of his aides that he himself was supposed to read
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • are in effect telling them to get to work and discipline themselves. J: I would say insofar as AID was the agency of State in these dealings, and it was supposed to be, they were in pretty general agreement with the position of Agriculture when we began
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • much of anything. at times. I would see him. He would call me up I would call him up when I would go to Washington. I became very friendly with Walter Jenkins. close friends and our families [were]. He and I were very When we lived in Washington
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • ; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the press reported that the other way, I think, very widely. Me: Not true. Mil: You served on President Kennedy's--what do they call it, the Clay Committee on Foreign Aid? Me: Yes. Mil: And dissented from its report. Me: Yes. Mil: Did you ever
  • Foreign aid
  • Aid; 3/31 announcement; AFL-CIO would have supported LBJ for another term; LBJ’s legislative achievements; assessment of LBJ’s presidency.
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • administrations; agricultural legislation; Freeman’s “report and review” sessions; 1965 Food and Agriculture Act; BOB; price support program; Farm Bureau; Food for Peace Program (PL480); India; self-help feature; aid to Latin America; AID mission; relationship
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and style, assigned me as an aide to Lodge for that visit, knowing of our past relationship. I was sort of running Lodge's temporary office and running his message center and facilitating his mission on his visit there, which had many facets. This is all
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and with Lodge, with AID Director Bell, Bundy, Rostow, all present. What was the gist of that? K: I don't recall what the gist of that particular meeting was. Let me say--you know, you asked me whether I had many meetings with the President as a prospective
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Foreign aid
  • to JFK assassination; LBJ-RFK friction; LBJ’s difficulty in delegating; B/P; foreign aid; business and government; resignation as Secretary; LBJ’s loss of public support.
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Atlanta had a very outstand- ing mayor--a mayor who had a conscience in this particular realm. B: This must be Ivan Allan. H: No, this was William Hartsfield at that time. Chief of Police was Mr. Jenkins. Then I believe the name of the He likewise
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during the fifties, it started before then, that it was misnamed "Federal Aid to Education." I know you offered a compromise bill on federal funding of school buildings. H: Yes, I thought that was the way to get it done. have been for any kind of aid
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the people's surprised remarks that saw him in the wheelchair. They couldn't believe it because his image was standing, although holding on to the arm of an aide. M: I have to admit I lived my first fifteen or sixteen years under Roosevelt and I was a grown
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But since it was felt to be very desirable to get David Bell over to AID just as soon as possible, I actually took over the directorship late in December which was right at the last stage of the process of putting together the 1964 budget. In effect
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it and supported it; and third, because he encouraged our task force throughout its deliberations. M: Was part of your consideration here federal aid to cities; that is, the sharing in the sense that cities would benefit? P: The consideration
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the President's aides advising me of what had happened. And like I said, it was very difficult to believe and I felt at the time that somebody was pulling a very bad joke. And of course when the news was known in Costa Rica, it was almost as though he had been
  • with the Mexican Commission on the Economic and Social Development of the Border Area; Mrs. Johnson; LBJ’s understanding of Latin Americans; LBJ’s aid in the Costa Rican eruption of Volcano Irazu; evaluation of Coast Rica’s stability; U.S. Ambassador’s house
Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • as advisor I saw some aides of the President who reflected some antagonism to Robert Kennedy. I ,always wondered--not always, because I didn't see much of it--but to the extent I saw it on the Johnson side, I always wondered whether they were reflecting
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : When he told you that did he have reference particularly to the staff in the sense of the White House aides? S: I think it was a general statement, and I think he told it to me in reference to one of the reasons why he wanted to set up this school
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Trueheart? F: Yes, subsequently Ambassador Truehart; then Minister-Counselor Trueheart. And the political counselor. The head of AID [Agency for International Development] was there, and General Harkins. going from the residence at ten o'clock
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson seemed to like the fact that I had had a student aid job and that I was interested in carrying forward the program . job . I might say when I was in school I never did have an easy I hopped a lot of tables, used to clean off the lawn
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to defer to anybody. It was perfectly clear that these missions were arranged, some at his request, other Kennedy and his aides thought up to keep [Johnson occupied]. "I don't know what to do with Lyndon. And Kennedy often said, I've got to keep him
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of fact, he was a storehouse of information . If he himself wouldn't get involved, anybody who could get to one of his aides or get to him and say, "Tell me how I should handle this," you could stack your chips . But if you followed the advice, you'd
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)